Land | Food | Nature | People
After the bike tour finished in Hoi An, I stayed there for a week, enjoying the chilled-out atmosphere and small streets of worn-looking French colonial buildings, wandering to the beach, or just reading and grazing. I could have gone to Danang or Hue to the North, even as far as Hanoi if I’d been in …
Leaving Saigon was a relief, but I quite liked the place – it’s not so different from being in London. The place does your head in but it’s fun at the same time, you’re one of many anonymous people, everything you want is at hand, and everything costs more than it should. Just like temples, …
I have been asked to recite a line from a movie by Iain while still in Ho Chi Minh City, so here it is. If you have any movie lines you would like me to recite in their actual locations, please let me know. And I may just do this even if you don’t ask …
My cap’n Originally uploaded by Big Trippy Nathan. I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, and am already feeling like, for the good of my health, I need to leave as quickly as possible. I’m staying in the Pham Ngu Lao area, a backpackery haunt, therefore it’s rammed with shops selling dodgy North Face …
I’m in Cantho, the transport and industrial hub of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. I got here after a slow boat journey from Phnom Penh down the Mekong River, which was a great chance to see people fishing, boating and doing everything else they do by or on the river. The Mekong is huuuge, and branches …
After just over three great weeks, it’s time to leave Siem Reap, tomorrow morning. I’m leaving with a fantastic teaching experience behind me, lots of new e-mail addresses in the back of my notebook, and a furrier liver than when I got here. The Sangkheum Center, Earthwalkers, Siem Reap, the people and the temples have …
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